Preparing For Power

Type

Book

Authors

Caroline Hodges Persell

Peter W. Cookson Jr.

ISBN 10

0465062687

ISBN 13

9780465062683

Tags

Social Sciences, Schools & Teaching, Secondary Education

Description

Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep–school life and underlife. - from Amzon

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